The Harper Herald (Harper, Tex.), Vol. 39, No. 50, Ed. 1 Friday, December 17, 1954 Page: 1 of 4
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VOLUME XXXIX, No. 50.
HARPER, GILLESPIE COUNTY, TEXAS. Friday, December 17, 1954.
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THE MEANING OF
CHRISTMAS
By E. Stanley Jones, D. D.
IS /HAT SHOULD Christmas
Yf mean to you? This event
is the real center of our
whole Christian faith—this Incar-
nation, “The Word become flesh”.
The central miracle of the Gos-
pel is not the opening of blind
eyes or raising the dead, or even
the resurrection of Jesus Him-
self—-the central miracle of the
Gospel is just this Divine Inva-
sion of us in the Incarnation.
In all other religious systems it
is the Word become word — a
philosophy or an ethical code. In
Christianity alone does the Word
become flesh — become a Fact.
Jesus is not man become God, but
God become man. We couldn’t
get to Him, so He came to us.
He became like us that we might
become like Him.
Hence the deepest meaning of
Christmas and the very center
of our Christian faith is Identi-
fication — God identifying Him-
self with man. How deeply did
He identify Himself? Of course,
there was the identification with
our humanity. He became bone
of our bone, flesh of our flesh.
He was set in a human body, in
a. human environment, and met
life as you and I meet it. He cal-
led on no power for His own mor-
al battle that is not open to you
and me. He met life as a man,
“. . . was in all points tempted
like as we are, yet without sin”.
So He was identified with our
humanity.
But He went deeper. He was
identified with our sinful hum-
anity. The first step was at his
baptism. The people were being
baptized into a baptism of re-
pentance. Jesus, who wore a
stainless conscience and so need-
ed no repentance, entered that
line of repenting people and took
a baptism of repentance along
with them as one of them. He
thus began to identify Himself
with us at the place of our sins.
Here was a new kind of right-
eousness. The Pharisees showed
a righteousness that stood above
and aloof from people and tried
to correct them by disapproval
and criticism. But Jesus here
showed a righteousness that iden-
tified itself with the sinner to
lift him from within. This was
breathtaking and different.
Where would it come out? It
came out at the place of the cross
where the identification was com-
plete. He had said: “I was hun-
gry and you fed me; in prison
and you came unto me”. And
then He explained in answer to
their query: “Inasmuch as you
have done it to others, you have
done it unto me. For I am hun-
gry in their hunger, I am bound
in their imprisonment”. He made
every man’s hunger His hunger,
every man’s bondage His bond-
age.
Here is His identification with
all the troubled and suffering
people. But at the cross He did
more. He became identified with
us at the place of our sins. He
was now crucified between two
sinners as one of them. In the
words of Paul: “He became sin
for us”—our substitute. He “bore
in His own body our sins upon
a tree”.
Since He was thus identified
with our sin, He makes it pos-
sible for us to be identified with
His goodness. If He was identi-
fied with us at the bottom of our
need, so we can now be identified
with Him at the height of His
fullness. You or I—we can be-
come strong in His strength, pure
in His purity, loving in His love,
victorious in His victory, and ra-
diant in His radiance. How? By
identification with Him! That is
by self-surrender to Him. In that
self-sur’render, our identification
with Him is complete.
At Christmas we give gilts. Bu,
at Christmas—the first Christ
mas—Jesus did not give gifts—
He gave a Gift—the gift of Him-
self. Since He gave Himself for
us and to us, then just to give
gifts to each other and not to
give the gift of ourselves to Him
—this would be to miss the mean-
ing of Christmas—and worse, it
would be to miss the point of our
faith. For it is founded on the
Divine Self-giving—and utter and
complete self-giving. That is the
true meaning of Christmas for
ill of us! —Progressive Farmer.
-ooo-
Legend has it that before the
Crucifixion the berries of Christ-
mas Holly were white instead of
red as now.
--QOO-
The street festivals of Italy
and Spain had fire works at
Christmas time. America now has
illuminated community trees. In
some places, fireworks still per-
sist.
Christmas Program
fit Methodist Church
Dec. 19
TROPHY WINNERS — in the
girls’ division at the Harper In-
vitational were Comfort, repre-
sented by the two co-captains on
BOY’S CHAMPIONS — at the j honors last year. They are, front j Back row, Coach Leonard
annual Harper Invitational row, left to right, Willard Dear- Shanklin, Travis Klaerner, Frank
Basketball Tournament last ing, Roy Enderlin, Walter Humes, Beckmann, Logan St. Clair, Her-
week were the Fredericksburg Elmer Friedrich, Wilbur Thomp- bert Itz, Ronnie Cravens, and
Hillbillies, who won the same I son and Billy Petmecky. I Manager Raymond Beyer.
Rocksprings Girls Win Out Over Harper
in Basketball Tourney Here Last Week
The Fredericksburg High
School Hillbillies soundly trounc-
ed the Liano Yedowjackets, 72-57,
Saturday mght at Harper in the
invitational Basketball Tourna-
ment finals to take top honors
for the second year in a row.
Tire Harper girls and the
Rocksprings sextet battled it
out for the championship cup in
the girls division, with tne Rock-
springs entry coming out on top,
44-36, in what was a close game
until the fading minutes of the
tilt.
The Billies placed two on the
All * Tournament Boys Team,
while Llano, Millersview, Rock-
spnngs and Bandera each placed
one. Billy Petmecky, tall Billy
senior center, and Wilbur Thomp-
son, another senior, were named
for the All-Tourney honors, as
were David Ross of Llano, Clif-
ton of Millersview, Butch Ward-
law of Rocksprings, and Bradley
of Bandera.
Rocksprings dominated the
girls All-Tournament team with
three, while Harper had two re*
presentatives, and Comfort and
the Fredericksburg Billikens bach
one. Named from Rocksprings
were Lulu Linn, Edwina Smart,
and Mary Miller; from Harper,
Marlene Kaiser and Lydia Bier-
schwale were chosen; Merle Kol-
meier represented Fredericks-
burg, and Miss Zimmermann was
named from Comfort.
Consolation winners in the
boys division were the Rock-
springs basketeers, while the
Comfort sextet won consolation
honors in the girlr division.
The eight boys teams entered
included Bandera, Comfort, Har-
per, Center Point, Millersview,
Llano, Rocksprings and Freder-
icksburg. Competing in the girls
division were Harper, Comfort,
Bandera, Center Point, Rock-
springs, Fredericksburg A and B
and Llano B.
Roy Langerhans and Tony
Knopp, coaches of Fredericks-
burg High School and St. Mary’s
were officials at the tournament.
Ed Bailey, Harper High School
superintendent and coach of the
Harper girls team, served as
tournament director.
Scores in the boys division
were as follows, with the games
listed in the order that they were
played:
Bandera 31, Comfort 23; Har-
per 17, Center Point 39; Millers-
view 38, Llano 49; Rocksprings
35, Fredericksburg 52; Llano 47,
Bandera 21; Millersview 39, Com-
fort 25; Center Point 39, Freder-
icksburg 62; Harper 19, Rock-
springs 58; Bandera 60, Center
Point 44; Rocksprings 48, Millers-
view 42; Fredericksburg 72,
Llano 57.
Girls division games were as
follows, also in the order in
which they were played:
Harper 37, Comfort 35; Ban-
dera 32, Center Point 25; Rock-
springs 45, Fredericksburg B 21;
Fredericksburg A 35, Llano B 12;
Harper 37, Bandera 15; Comfort
45, . Center Point 20; Rocksprings
46, Fredericksburg A 34; Llano
B 17, Fredericksburg B 34; Com-
fort 47, Fredericksburg B 19;
and Harper 36, Rocksprings 44.
CTEC Members Vote Fredericksburg
As Headquaters Site & New Building
Fredericksburg was the over-
whelming. favorite ,of Central
Texas Electric Cooperative mem-
bers. as the site for the headquar-
ters building, according to a
straw ballot taken last week by
mail.
The cards were mailed out last
week with Mason, Llano and
Fredericksburg suggested as pos-
sible locations at which to build
the headquarters building. Fred-
ericksburg and Mason both offer-
ed three acre sites free of charge,
while a 150x30 foot warehouse
belonging to the Coop was. avail-
able in Llano. Construction of
new buildings at Mason or Fred-
ericksburg was figured at $60,-
000. and the remodeling of the
warehouse at Llano was estimat-
ed at $16,000. If the Llano site
had been selected, a $10,000 ware-
house would have been construct-
ed in Fredericksburg,
The vote, as announced Thurs-
day after the directors had met
n.ere for the tabulation, was 1,471
for Fredericksburg; 826 for Lla-
no, and 151 for Mason. President
A Lee Whitt of Llano made the
announcement after the meeting.
The second question of the bal-
lot was whether or not the mem-
bers wanted to build their own
building or if they wanted to
keep on renting office space. The
vote was seven to one in favor
of building a new headquarters
building.
The Fredericksburg Chamber
of Commerce has purchased a
three-acre site from Rolf Dan-
nenberg on the San Antonio high-
way just outside the city limits.
Money for the purchase was ob-
tained by subscription, and the
$3,000 needed was oversubscribed
by Gillespians within a few days
after the drive started.
Whitt stated that it was the
directors’ intention to build as
soon as possible in order to save
money on their rent and so that
the offices, warehouse and pole
yard could be combined as soon
as possible for more efficient
operation.
Roy Willmann of Comfort,
vice-president of the board and
chairman of the building commit-
tee, stated Monday that he did
not think that construction would
be begun until some time early
in 1955. He stated that Page,
Sutherland and Page, architects,
of Austin had been consulted on
a building and that some prelim-
inary sketches have been sub-
mitted. They are planning on
what is termed a semi-fireproof
building with brick front and
concrete tile sides and back.The
inside is to be of accoustical tile.
He stated that the warehouse
and the main office are to be in
the same building. After the
plans for the building are com-
pleted, they have to be submit-
ted to othe Rural Electrification
Administration for approval.
According to W. C. McWil-
liams manager of CTEC, the
Coop has a service crew in Mason
and a service crew and ware-
house in Llano. Both of these
will remain as they are.
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Do Your Christmas
Mailing Early!
P-TA Christmas
Program Doc. 20
GIRLS’ CHAMPIONS — at the
annual Harper Invitational
Basketball Tournament last week
end were, those pictured above,
the Rocksprings entry. They
beat.Harper in the finals. They
are, left to right , front row,
Lana Guthrie, Lulu Linn, Sheria
Hawkins, JoNell Hunt, Mary Mil-
ler and Barbara Guthrie. Back
row, Coach P. E.; Barr, Neddie
Clark, Shirley Barrows, Joan
The Harper Methodist Church
will have a Christmas program
Sunday night, Dec. 19, at 7:30
p. m.
Everyone has a cordial invita-
tion to attend this service of wor-
ship and fellowship.
Some improvements have been
made at the church and parson-
age recently. A screen porch
has been added across the entire
width of the parsonage. Butane
gas has been installed in the
church.
Last Saturday, Ralph W. Wea-
verling of San Antonio present-
ed as a gift, an electric pressure
pump for the well ,at the parson-
age to Rev, and Mrs. Jasper
Snow.
Mr. Weaverling has a water
equipment service in San An-
tonio. He and his wife and son
were guests of Rev. and Mrs.
Snow and he installed the pump.
Members of the Congregation
i deeply appreciate this pump,
—Staff photos which was badly needed.
Other guests of Rev. and Mrs.
Bierschwale, Edwina Smart, Bet- Snow during the week-end were
ty Feyner, Ginger Whitworth, their daughter, Mrs. John Haw-
Elizabeth Hough and Kay Haw- kins and children of San Antonio,
kins.
Changes Announced In Mail Route
And Closing Time At Post Office
No. 50510 (London to Harper).
The net savings to the Depart-
ment is 33 miles per day or
$2006.07 per annum.
This will also give daily service
to approximately 8 new patrons
between London and Noxville, all
patrons living along the London
and Noxville routes will receive
their mail addressed as hereto-
fore. Patrons from London via
Noxville to Harper will be ser-
viced on the return trip. All pa-
trons from Harper to London and
from London (return trip) via
Noxville to Harper will in all
probability receive, their mails
one hour earlier then they did
previously.
The above change eliminates
duplications and puts all routes
in .and out of Harper on a one-
Drive Here In January
Lions Club fill Start Membership
Frank Staudt, Harper postmas-
ter, announced that two changes
will go into effect January 3, one
affecting mail routes and the
other closing time at the post of-
fice.
Staudt stated, “I have just
been officially informed by the
Post Office Department that the
present Harper to London Con-
tractor Richard J. Roeder (Star
Route No. 50510) will return
through by the W. W. House, Ted
Kiser, Walton Whitworth and
various other ranches via Nox-
ville (mo.) to Harper. This ser-
vice will become effective Jan.
1, 1955. Actual starting date will
be on Monday, January 3, 1955”.
After surveying all mail routes
in and out of Harper field offi-
cials have found considerable du-
plication of service on two pre-
sent routes, namely a portion of
the Noxville route and the Lon-
don route. After due considera-
tion the Department has ruled
that a portion of star route No.
56077 Noxville to Harper) should
be consolidated with Star route
Mrs. Edw. J. Walker
Complimented
Mrs. Edward Jesse Walker was
complimented with a Layette
Shower Sunday evening from 3
to 5 in her home when Mrs. Wes-
lie Ellebracht and Mrs. Alfred
Ellebracht were hostesses. They
were assisted by Mrs. Ed Walker,
and Mrs. Charles Frederick re-
gistered the guests, and Mrs. G.
Harper was in charge of the
gifts.
The honoree and other mem-
bers of the house party wore
corsages of pink carnations.
Delicious angle food cake, cof-
fee and cocoa was served to 24
guests. The honoree received a
lovely lot of gifts.
--ooo—-——
Roy Jones of Rocksprings spent
Friday and Saturday visiting his
grandmother, Mrs-. A. C. Wendel,
and attended the Basketball
Tournament ,at the Harper gym.
The HarpeT Lions Club met at
the school f or their regular meet-
ing Wednesday night with .a good
attendance of members and one
guest, R. A. Bode, present.
Secretary Clark Bierschwale
read a telegram from District
Governor George Jones urging
the securing of more members in
Louis Brinkroff Rites
Funeral services for Louis
Brinkroff were held at St. An-
thony’s Catholic Church in Har-
per at 10 a. m. Monday with Rev.
A. A. Gitter officiating.
The Memorial Funeral Home of
Kerrville was in charge of ar-
rangements. Interment was in
the Harper Cemetery.
Mr. Brinkroff died at the Vet-
erans Hospital at Legion Sunday
at the age of 64 years, eight
months and six days. He was
All contributors and advertis-
ers are kindly urged to have
their copy in early for
next week’s Christmas issue.
Thanks.
the month of Jnuary, the regular
membership drive month.
Coach Paul Suffel thanked the
club in behalf of the football
team and pep squad for the ban-
quet given them two weeks ago.
V. M. Harris showed a film on
the development and production
of the aluminum industry to
close out the program. ‘
Held Here Monday
born April 6, 1890, in Fredericks-
burg.
He is survived by five sisters,
Mrs. Edwin Lange, Harper; Mrs.
Jacob Roeder, Fredericksburg;
Mrs. Walter Lange, San Antonio;
Mrs. Alfred Klein, Fredericks-
burg; and Mrs. Eduard Klein,
Morris Ranch.
Pall bearers at the funeral
were Fred Bierschwale, Max
Lange, L. W. Wendel, W. E.
Fletcher, J. M. Scarborough and
Reuben Bode.
Congesman O. C. Fisher of San
Angelo and Claude ilmer of Rock-
springs were guests of the Fbg.
C. C. at their noon luncheon on
Thursday.
the left, Consolation winners;
Rocksprings, represented by Lu-
lu Linn and Joan Bierschwale,
center, champions, and Harper,
—Staff photo
represented by Lydia Bierschwale
and Marlene Kaiser, right
Mr. and Mrs. J. O. Stevens will
be honored with an open house
on Christmas Day, December 25,
celebrating their 50th wedding
anniversary, from 2 to 5 at their
home. All their many friends and
relatives are invited.
Host and hostesses are Mr. and
Mrs. H. L. Stevens, ML and Mrs.
Harvey Stevens and Mrs. Lewis
Stevens. ,
-ooo-
Patronise HERALD Advertisers
The Harper P-TA Executive
Committee will meet at 7 p. m.
December 20.
A short business meeting will
follow at 7:30 p. m. in the High
School Study Hall. Be sure to
attend and help your child’s room
win in room voting.
At 8 p. m. the Student Council
will present a Christmas program
in the auditorium under the di-
rection of Mrs.. Paul Suffel.
trip a day basis.
The Harper Post Office will
close 30 minutes sooner (5 p. m.)
daily effective as of January 3,
1955. The present closing time
is 5:30 p. m. and has been for
the past 13 years.
Office hours daily except Sun-
days and holidays (8) 7:30 a. m.
to 5 p. m.
“For the past 13 years I have
given the Post Office Department
and the patrons of my office an
additional one-half hour daily. I
don’t regret that one bit, it has
been a pleasure to service the
people of the entire Harper cpjplJjbfiin,
munity, and it will be my policy^ ^
in the future that the Harper
Post Office will continue to ren-
der the best service that we can
give”,- Staudt said.
Christmas Program At
Baptist Church
Tuesday light
The following is the Christmas
program wiiicn will be presented
at 7 p. m. Tuesday nigat at the
Bap list Chux cn. Ralph Hams
will serve as chorister and John-
nie Spencer as announcer.
Congregational song.
Prayer.
Welcome—Jim Bob Stevens.
Christmas Day — Nadine Bar-
ker.
Christmas Blessing ■— Dudley
A Visit from St. Nicholas—Da-
vid Harris.
Christmas foF Dad — Sharon
Strackbein.
Merry Christmas To You All—
Gary Strackbein.
Merry Christmas—Joan Strack-
Christmas, Present — Gregory
Parker.
Christmas Decorations—Benny
Barker.
In Santa’s Workshop — Patsy
Bailey.
Christmas Weather — Logan
Stevens.
The Robin’s Christmas —Kay
Spencer.
His Children — Jimmy Strack:
bein.
Christmas Bells Are Ringing—
Jce Dean Spencer.
Jest ’Fore Christmas — Betty
Jane Bailey.
The Christmas Hosanna —
Chorus.
The Christmas Story From
Luke—Ronnie Lumpkins and Sal-
ly Spencer.
HOC Christmas Party
The Harper Home Demons c..*-
cion Club held their Christmas
Party Friday afternoon in the
nome of Mrs. Fred Gammentna-
ler.
After a short business meeting,
Mrs. Belton Tatsch, program
cnairman, led the group in sing-
ing Christmas carols. She also
read an article on Christmas.
Others who contributed to the
program were Mrs. Albert Maner
and Mrs. Watkins Tarr. Mrs.
Tatsch directed several games,
gifts were exchanged. Mrs. Dor-
win Brown led the closing pray-
er.
A Christmas tree and decora-
tions were used in the living
room. The refreshment table
was laid with a red cloth cen-
tered with an arrangement of
red and green candles with min-
iature Santa Clauses.
Pie and coffee and tea was
served to the members and sev-
eral guests and children.
OPEN HOUSE HONORING
MR. AND MRS. J. O. STEVENS
ON DEC. 25
GIRLS’ ALL-TOURNAMENT —
team at Harper included the
above girls. They are left to
right, Marlene Kaiser and Lydia
Faye Bierschwale of the runner-
up Harper team; Mary Miller,
Lulu Linn and Edwina Smart of
the Rocksprings champions; and
—Staff Photo
Merle Kolmeier of the FHS
Jillikens. Zimmermann of Com*
fort was not present.
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